Akodon Fertile XY Female Rodents Defy Disorder Of Sex Development (DSD) Label

Friday, May 14, 2010 - 11:30 in Biology & Nature

I am constantly amazed at how pathologizing variable phenomena is usually a human social agent. Consider the XY fertile Akodon females who go roaming around in South America. No other rodents seem to have told these fertile XY females that they have a  disorder of sex development (DSD). That will undoubtedly be left to some of the "powers that be" of the human species. Shall I say rats? Or shall I say of mice and men? read more

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